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Basel’s Münsterplatz is the locale for the 2015 Parcours exhibition of site-specific and performative work by more than 20 leading international contemporary artists.
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Ahead of the Frieze Art Fair's 2011 edition, London Correspondent Pippa J. Wielgos interviews artist Will Ryman about his work recently installed at the fair's beloved Sculpture Park.
Read MoreAhead of the Frieze Art Fair's 2011 edition, London Correspondent Pippa J. Wielgos interviews artist Will Ryman about his work recently installed at the fair's beloved Sculpture Park.
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"We sold the work even before the VIPs were let in," Adi Gura, director of Tel Aviv's Braverman Gallery, told A.i.A. of this year's LOOP Barcelona.
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Born in 1967 in Barcelona, Spain, Alicia Framis lives and works in Shanghai and Barcelona. Framis’ installations and performances challenge the rigid structures that govern contemporary societies. Her series “Remix Building” associates radically different spaces and activities as a means of questioning common assumptions and normative codes of conduct. For instance, “BLOODSUSHIBANK” (2000) couples a sushi restaurant with a fully operational blood bank. By juxtaposing a convivial environment with a medical center, the installation highlights the apprehension and fear that surrounds this life-giving activity. Framis’ works often formulate sharp and witty critiques of established networks of exchange. By shifting the function of shared social spaces and re-contextualizing everyday activities, Framis exposes the grave realities that underpin our socio-economical system, including child prostitution and government-sanctioned torture. Her installation “Guantanamo Museum” (2008) questions the act of memorializing sites such as Auschwitz and Alcatraz by imagining a museum commemorating the infamous US detention camp.
Alicia Framis has recently presented solo exhibitions at Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (2009), Instituto Cervates, Pekin (2009), the Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona (2008), CAIXA FORUM, Barcelona (2008), Museum of Design, Zurich (2008) and Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2007). Her work has been shown in numerous museums and international events including “Utopia Station” and “We are the world”, the Dutch Pavilion, both presented as part of the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), the 2nd Berlin Biennale (2001) and Manifesta 2, Luxemburg (1998). She has been awarded the Prix Lleida Contemporary Art, Spain (2000) as well as the Prix de Rome Art in Public Space, Dam Square, Amsterdam (1997).
Alicia Framis is represented by Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Helga de Alvear, Madrid and Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
